Kristian is CEO and co-founder of Playfish Ltd, a social games company. Prior to Playfish Kristian served as Managing Director of Europe of Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU), and was a co-founder of Glu Mobile Europe (Macrospace Ltd) in 2001. As Managing Director of Europe Kristian was responsible for the rapid growth of Glu’s European business, the integration of iFone Ltd in 2006 as well as being a contributor to the company’s successful IPO in Q1 2007. During his 6-year tenure at Glu, Kristian was a driving force in the creation of more than 40 mobile titles including chart topping ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ and multi-award winners such as the ‘Ancient Empires’ series. During his time at Glu Kristian was also responsible for forging relationships with key Glu brand partners including Konami, Celador, Codemasters and Cartoon Network. Kristian has been on the GDC Mobile advisory board since 2006 and was voted one of top-50 most influential executives in Mobile Entertainment in December 2006 in ME Magazine. He holds an MSc from London School of Economics and an MA (Cantab) in Economics from Cambridge University.
